This project is a great why to incorporate science and art history. Students first look at images of Morris Louis, discuss his techniques and brainstorm how the students can recreate his work. Using diluted temper paint and spoons students were able to recreate Louis's style with gravity and a little patience. One of the requirements for the project is the students had to use at least five different colors. After getting a feel for the media students were then allowed to let their imagination run wild and to see what they could come up with using gravity and paint. I first placed a drop of paint in the center of the paper and picked it up and moved the paper in a circle a couple of times to get a more organic feel just letting the paint run which morphed into dancing people. I found this very interesting so I tired to recreate the process again with a different color I also wanted the color to touch almost as though the dancers were holding hands. I could see this project being used in a science classroom to demonstrate why things don't just float off into space.
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